BandAide
05-07-2005, 06:41 AM
Read the following, it's pretty funny. Basically, parents in florida are all up in arms because their kids are eating marijuana flavored suckers. Ewww... They're 100 percent THC free, made from hemp, but packaged provocatively.
What I want to know is who consumes pot for the flavor alone?
Tampa, Florida - Many parents worry about the sugar and fat found in candy, now there's a new concern.
From the flavor down to the packaging parents worry this candy may lead kids to drugs. It's called Chronic Candy and it comes in lollipops, gum drops even chocolate.
Forget the taste, it's the packaging that has Jenny and Ben Doan upset. The sample pack contains two lollipops and two gumdrops made from the hemp plant, it's related to the marijuana plant. The package says, "every lick is like taking a hit". The bag has a picture of marijuana on the outside.
Chronic Candy founder 36 year old Tony Van Pelt, also known by his customers as Tony Montana after the movie character in "Scarface" says it's just candy.
The Chronic Candy ingredients state it's "100% THC free" of the intoxicating chemical and that makes it legal to use and sell. Van Pelt discovered the candy while visiting a hemp farm in Amsterdam 5 years ago.
Van Pelt says the candy is in three hundred stores nationwide with two in Florida including Ybor and Miami Beach. He says publicity has tripled sales in the last two months. Customers who publicly endorse the product include rappers like Snoop Dogg.
Marketing is the key behind chronic candy's success. Packages come in nickel bags, dime bags and 20 sacs similar to the street drug. Flavors like "chronic" and "sticky icky skunk buds" are slang for marijuana.
While there's nothing preventing retailers from selling the pot-flavored candy to kids and teens, Van Pelt plans on putting an advisory on future boxes saying it's not intended for anyone under 18 years old.
At 2 dollars a pop chronic brings in lots of green for retailers, but tastes pretty sour to parents. Sales are picking up and new products will soon hit the market. Besides a line of candy and clothing, Van Pelt will release a Chronic breakfast cereal and energy drink this spring, it too is suppose to taste like marijuana.
What I want to know is who consumes pot for the flavor alone?
Tampa, Florida - Many parents worry about the sugar and fat found in candy, now there's a new concern.
From the flavor down to the packaging parents worry this candy may lead kids to drugs. It's called Chronic Candy and it comes in lollipops, gum drops even chocolate.
Forget the taste, it's the packaging that has Jenny and Ben Doan upset. The sample pack contains two lollipops and two gumdrops made from the hemp plant, it's related to the marijuana plant. The package says, "every lick is like taking a hit". The bag has a picture of marijuana on the outside.
Chronic Candy founder 36 year old Tony Van Pelt, also known by his customers as Tony Montana after the movie character in "Scarface" says it's just candy.
The Chronic Candy ingredients state it's "100% THC free" of the intoxicating chemical and that makes it legal to use and sell. Van Pelt discovered the candy while visiting a hemp farm in Amsterdam 5 years ago.
Van Pelt says the candy is in three hundred stores nationwide with two in Florida including Ybor and Miami Beach. He says publicity has tripled sales in the last two months. Customers who publicly endorse the product include rappers like Snoop Dogg.
Marketing is the key behind chronic candy's success. Packages come in nickel bags, dime bags and 20 sacs similar to the street drug. Flavors like "chronic" and "sticky icky skunk buds" are slang for marijuana.
While there's nothing preventing retailers from selling the pot-flavored candy to kids and teens, Van Pelt plans on putting an advisory on future boxes saying it's not intended for anyone under 18 years old.
At 2 dollars a pop chronic brings in lots of green for retailers, but tastes pretty sour to parents. Sales are picking up and new products will soon hit the market. Besides a line of candy and clothing, Van Pelt will release a Chronic breakfast cereal and energy drink this spring, it too is suppose to taste like marijuana.